Celebrating Jonah

Phew.....I feel like we have been celebrating birthdays in this house for 2 weeks.....oh wait we have! I have finally had a chance to sit down and upload the maaaaaaany pictures from Jonah's days of celebration. Stayed tuned for the pics of Sophie which are soon to come.


Birthday Morning/Afternoon November 1, 2010

Up bright and early at 6:45am.....the norm around here!

So excited about his own chair, no more having to sit in sister's pink one!

Birthday Party November 6, 2010

Waiting for everyone to arrive.

Loving his handmade blocks from Papa Slimick!

So excited about his car he couldn't even wait for the wheels to be put on!

FREE, who doesn't love FREE?

Thanks to my friend Kelly I learned about an awesome giveaway that Shutterfly is doing. If you simply blog about their website and all the great products and services that they offer you get 50 FREE holiday cards!!! I am truly excited about this folks especially since we have so many photos to come by around here with the talent of my awesome hubby! We have not used Shutterfly for holiday cards in the past, but we have enlisted their services several times to order prints and my mom uses them quite often for her prints and in my opinion the print quality is great. I really like the fact that they offer a matte finish option on their prints, since I really, I mean really dislike a glossy finish on my prints and some places don't give you the option they just offer glossy. Anyway back to holiday cards I have been browsing Shutterfly's site lately trying to get a feel for what the Slimick holiday card might look like this year and I have to tell you Shutterfly has some pretty nice looking cards, it may be hard to choose! I really have not narrowed down my decision quite yet, but the two below are just some examples of the cute designs they are offering this year. Oh and they offer other great personalized photo gifts as well! To sign up and get your 50 FREE cards just go HERE!

nothing we do is normal......

For our children's birthdays we got them chickens, that's right.......chickens, 4 of them to be exact. We took them to our farmer friend, Michael, over at his farm, The Poultry Junction to pick them out. Sophie did her very best to wrangle a chicken for her and one on behalf of Jonah, who, is clearly too young to wrangle his own chicken, but I imagine he is not far behind in his wrangling abilities. Anyhow we went with the intention of getting 2 maybe 3 chickens, but ended up with 4 because we thought it only fitting for each member of the family to have their very own chicken, who wants to share a chicken anyway. The chickens are not quite old enough to lay eggs I think two of them will be old enough in about a month or so, and the other two in January/February sometime. I like to think of our new chicken friends as pets with purpose. Here is a look at our day at the farm.

running down to the coops, she could not get there fast enough.

itching to get inside and pick out her chicken.

trying to catch one.

caught. except this one actually got put back because she saw a "cuter" one she wanted.

this is the one she caught for jonah.

helping daddy catch his chicken.

watching all the action.

telling me she would really like 2 chickens for herself.

i wonder if he is thinking "hey, we have the same hair color"


trying to decide which one i want to take home.


her "cuter" chicken.


of course what is a visit to the farm without saying hello to the turkey.

one.

he is one.

he is all boy.

he has so much love to give.

he is so loved.

he is one amazing little boy.

happy first birthday jonah michael.

Halloween 2010

What an eventful Halloween weekend! Saturday we went to my parent's neighborhood and did the whole "Trunk or Treat" thing. Since my parent's live in what is considered an active adult community (55 years and older) they don't have any trick or treaters so their neighborhood held a Trunk or Treat for all the grandkids, it was a blast and our kids had a good time, although all Jonah wanted to do was "drive" the golf cart (their neighborhood is so large most of the residents own golf carts to get them from point A to B). It was a good thing that we trunk or treated on Saturday because we did not go trick or treating on Sunday at all. Our friends who live about two house up the road had a block party for the entire neighborhood complete with a mini bounce house......Sophie was in heaven she could have cared less about more candy! The girl jumped her little heart out!

Super excited about eating candy at 10:30 in the morning!

Doing a little yard work after Trunk or Treat

On our way to the block party.